Michael W. Bell is a versatile composer, sound designer, and audio engineer specialising in cinematic scoring, immersive sound, and spatial-audio production. His work spans film, television, and installation art — with placements across A&E, CNN, Discovery, Netflix, Bravo, and the History Channel, and immersive showcases with the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in both the UK and US.

Beginning in 2007 within the independent music scene, Bell played and recorded in bands while running a small distribution company for physical media. By 2011, his focus had shifted toward production and sound design — writing, producing, and mixing for film, documentary, and multimedia projects. He later founded Aurora Eclipse Productions Ltd., now re-envisioned as Bell Creative Labs LLC, a creative and research hub dedicated to composition, spatial audio, and sound design at the intersection of art, technology, and storytelling.

His catalogue, released through Aurora Eclipse Productions, includes over twenty original projects spanning cinematic, experimental, and collaborative works such as ProtoVoid, Iceni, and SkyQuaker. His music has received multiple awards and festival nominations, including Best Soundtrack at the Out of the Can International Film Festival (2020).

Recent projects include Void: A Sonic Pilgrimage — a twelve-minute immersive Dolby Atmos soundscape premiered at the RSA exhibition in Las Vegas. The work extends his ongoing PhD research, “Experiential Soundtracks: A Creative, Programmatic Approach Utilising Contemporary Spatial and Multichannel Audio Technologies (CS-MAT)”, which investigates how formats like Dolby Atmos can evolve Pierre Schaeffer’s concept of the sound object within modern composition and sound design practice.